There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.
The motive power of democracy is love.
Intuition is a method of feeling one’s way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
We regard intelligence as man’s main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.
Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.
The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
One can always reason with reason.
Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.